Showing results for
"All"
Language
Content type
Article Type
Topics
Tags
![On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/2006867613_b93836c1ed_b_0_0.jpg.webp?itok=XntAjGhQ)
overview
Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea
Welcome to Moorea, a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the vast Pacific.......![The Peninsula Valdes in Argentina was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1999. The site is home to important breeding populations of the endangered southern right whale (Eubalaena australis), southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), and southern sea](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Peninsula-Valdez.jpg.webp?itok=IRpT8oUm)
slideshow
Marine World Heritage Photo Gallery
Marine World Heritage is a prestigious list of 50 marine ecosystems and......![A bloom of algae from up above](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/kareniabloom.jpg.webp?itok=DO5AR-2y)
Article
What Exactly Is a Red Tide?
Drifting throughout the ocean, invisible to the naked eye, are innumerable......
August 2018
![an oyster shell on a beach](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/pacific-oyster-57652_1920.jpg.webp?itok=5Fdwy_xz)
Article
How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition
Oysters are powerhouses of water filtration. In a single day, one oyster can...
December 2018
![A male surfer catching a wave in Hawaii](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/QuincyDein_BoogieBoardMakena.jpg.webp?itok=He8vsN6_)
Photo
Inside the Wave, Makena Beach, Maui
“While the shore-break at Makena Beach is notoriously dangerous and powerful, it......![A surfer waits for the perfect wave.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/KarenDoody_SolitarySurfer.jpg.webp?itok=JsdzhjZq)
Photo
Surfer at Bogue Banks, North Carolina, USA
“As I set up for a sunset shot—one last, solitary surfer exited the water and I......![Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/zonation_charlottes_1-credit.jpg.webp?itok=Wb1n5hwr)
Article
Seaside Lichens
Very few plant species can survive close to the ocean, where pounding surf fills......
August 2015
![Rough periwinkles sit on a bed of barnacles.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/Rough_periwinkles_sitting_on_barnacles_Helen_Scales.jpeg.webp?itok=2RVVR_de)
Personal Perspectives
Spirals in Time: A Walk at the Seashore
When I set out to write a book about mollusks (called Spirals in Time), I wasn't......
July 2015
![A wave curls near the shore.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/curling_wave.jpg.webp?itok=8DuR-FTn)
Photo
The Importance of a Wave
Large waves are a draw for surfers, scientists and spectators alike to locations......![A juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtle emerges from the nest](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/baby-kemps.jpg.webp?itok=Fj1zYQUr)
Article
Taking the Temperature of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
The Kemp’s ridley is a “riddler” among sea turtles. Although the species was......
May 2014